On 18 January 2012 19:32, Risker <[email protected]> wrote: > On 18/01/2012, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: > <snip > >> >> I was rather concerned by people thinking we need to allow "emergency >> access" - what kind of emergencies are going to mean people need >> Wikipedia? And is everyone having such an emergency going to have read >> the FAQ and know how to get around the blackout? > > > Speaking as one of the closers of the "RFC", some of the things we > were thinking of were a DMCA notice, Legal needing to get something > taken down right now or some other OFFICE-type action, removal of an > obvious copyright violation, information that needed to be suppressed, > or just something that went wrong from the technical end of things and > needed fixing right away. Remember this has sort of been put together > with baling wire and sealing wax, and we wanted to make sure to leave > a door open for unforeseen situations where it was possible to take > immediate action if required.
If the whole site is down, you don't really need to worry about takedown orders... Even if there was a need for an OFFICE action, people in the office are just a short walk away from the ops team that can do whatever needs doing. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
